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The History Of the most Noble Order of the Garter : Wherein is set forth An Account of the Town Castle, Chapel, and College of Windsor; with their several Officers ; The Foundation of the Order by King Edward III. ; With the Statutes, and Annals at large, as they have been altered and amended ; An Account of the Habits, Ensigns and Officers of the Order ... To which is prefix'd, A Discourse of Knighthood in General, and the several Orders extant in Europe
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View of the Nature of which Action and Ceremony, w cfhall proceed to certain Confederations preparatory there-unto, beginning with what concerns the Nomination ofthe Perfons to be propofed to the Election.

g.tf. And firft,That Knights-Companions only p re f cntin Chapter, have the foie Right inherent in themfelves,to nominate and propofe Perfons to the Sovereign’s £.leCtion, confentaneous to the Bodies of the Statutes,that even from the Inftitution of this Moft Noble Order,it hath not ever fuffer’d any deviations.

It is worthy of Remark, that Anno 2 6. Elk. theFeaft of St. George being Celebrated at Greenwich, theEarl of Warwick, and Lord Burleigh were feized with sFit of the Gout, upon the Feaft Day, which retardedthem from Evening Prayer, whilft the Scrutiny was ta-ken; whereupon we find their Indifpofition of Body,and Abfence,noted in that Scrutiny,where their Nomina-tionsfhould elfe have been fet down,had they been pre-fent. And upon the fame Occafion was what Hebert Cook,Efq; Clarenceux, King at Arms, informs us, That as forthofe Knights Companions who happen to he ahfent when theScrutiny is taken, altho’ this Abfence is occajioned by Ac-cident of Sicknefs, or with the Soveraign’s Licence, ne-verthelefs, in regard of this their Ah fence at that verytime, their Votes may not he received.

Thofe Knights Companions that come late to theChapter, forfeit likewise the Privilege of giving theirVotes for that time, which fo happened to Prince Rupert,and the Earl of Strafford, at the Chapter held for the Ele-ction of James Duke of Monmouth , in the Privy Cham-ber o.t Whitehall, 29 Mar. 166^.

Altho’ none of theabfentKmghts-Companions can givea Proxy to vote, or otherwife fend their Suffrages intothe Chapter or Chapel, there to pafs in Nomination;yet formerly, circa temp. H. 5. e?- H. 6. when divers ofthe Knights Companions were frequently employed inthe Wars of France, and confequently fo fixed to theirCommands, that they could not perfonally attend theFeaft of St. George at Windfor , it was ufual for the Com-mander there in Chief, with Confent of thofe KnightsCompanions, to make a formal Certificate, or Prefent-

 
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